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Votez veto pour l’Arbre de la Vie : la méthode PhySIC pour reconstruire des superarbres

Résumé Phylogenetic methods are used to infer the evolutionary history of species. In the Tree of Life framework, heterogeneous character data and very large species sets are considered. Supertree methods have been developped to deal with such a situation. These methods combine source topologies, inferred from separate character sets, into a larger, so-called supertree. One of the main challeng...

L’Association pour la recherche sur le cancer

What is it famous for? Being one of France's largest medical research charities and the best known, as far as the French public is concerned, because of its strong media presence. Does it have much money to give away? L'ARC's income in 1999 was FFr317 million (£32 million), three quarters of which went into funding research. Although this might not seem a lot, l'ARC — together with the other ma...

La sage-femme ou le médecin. Une nouvelle conception de la vie

JACQUES GELIS, La sage-femme ou le medecin. Une nouvelle conception de la vie, Paris, Fayard, 1988, 8vo, pp. 560, illus., Fr. 150.00, (paperback). Strictly speaking, in this work Jacques Gelis dwells on the substitution of the matron first by the educated midwife, and then by the obstetrician, as the central figure in the conduct of childbirth. In considering these changes as symptoms of long-t...

Application de la méthode par diffusion d'Oudin-Oakley pour le dénombrement des antigènes tétaniques

Une approche adaptative pour la recherche d'information sur le Web

The advent of the Web in the early 90s has deeply upset our society. This new media has rapidly become the greatest database in the world. Moreover, the ever increasing popularity of the Web engendered a huge dynamics with respect to Web data. Actually, by virtue of knowledge evolution, data is permanently added, deleted or updated from the Web which raises important issues regarding Web inform...